It was 4:30 a.m. exactly 30 years ago today when a massive shaking awakened me. I literally had the feeling that a giant hand was cupping our house and shaking it. It took me only a few seconds to realize it was an earthquake. A pretty large one, in fact. Close too. As it turned …
It was 1977 in Vienna, Austria, when I discovered two joys of reading that have stayed with me till this day. One was an author who was just starting out and the other was one who had been around for a long time and was actually in the last part of his career. The one …
I think it was January 1985 when I first realized how really cold it could get. It was the first of three times in my life I experienced wind chill temperatures as low as 50 degrees below zero. I was living in the Midwest, going from suburban St. Louis to Columbia, Missouri, to cover a …
Is Donald Trump insane? There are obviously many issues that could be brought into play here, but to me, the best example of Trump’s cluelessness is his argument that the president must have absolute immunity from any crimes he might commit. In fact, Trump says, if he were to order Seal Team 6 to assassinate …
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I saw a post on Facebook today by my lifelong friend Christine Worth Miller that brought back memories from very long ago. She was writing about the advent of Pizza Hut pan pizzas and how they were served, and it reminded me of a time in 1971 and ’72 that she, Chris Gullotta and I …
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Who would have figured it would be so easy to embarrass House Republicans? Really? Anybody with half a brain. The president’s son Hunter Biden certainly humiliated the Trumpanzees in Congress today. They have been going back and forth with him for months, demanding that he testify before the House Judiciary Committee about some trumped-up charges. …
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The success or failure of the Washington Redskins mattered so much to me when I was younger. In fact, one of the happiest days of young adulthood I can remember was New Year’s Eve 1972, when Washington crushed the hated Dallas Cowboys, 26-3, in the conference championship game to qualify for their first Super Bowl. …
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“These are the times that try men’s souls.” At least temporarily in this election year, the center of attention is shifting to the Supreme Court. Two cases involving Republican front-runner, former president and insurrectionist Donald Trump both have the potential to have a major effect on the politics of 2024. Rulings in one direction could …
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There are dates that will live forever in Americans’ memories. July 4, 1776. December 7, 1941. November 22, 1963. September 11, 2001. Dates like these have one thing in common. There is an American consensus on what happened on those days and what it meant. We declared our independence. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. President …
I guess it’s time I wrote about our Christmas cruise. Tomorrow evening it will be a week since we returned from Miami after spending nine hours in my least favorite airport this side of Elko, Nevada. Just kidding there. I did have a flight in 1989 from Reno to Salt Lake City that made a …
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